This Country Gender Assessment presents
key gender issues to be considered for
Bangladesh’s desired transformation. The
objective of the assessment is to inform...
Bangladesh has made considerable
progress in growth, development, and poverty reduction. It
has cut poverty in half in record speed, rapidly increased
women’s...
Gender equality is a core development
objective in its own right, and it is also a
smartdevelopment policy. Gender equality is also a key
pathway to ensure lasting poverty...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 141726Date: January 1, 2018
Morocco saw significant progress in
terms economic, social and human development outcomes during
the past decade. Women, as men, benefitted from such
progress and increased...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 97778Date: June 30, 2015
This assessment provides a broad picture
of gender disparities in Moldova in agency, education,
health, and access to economic opportunities. The gender gap
in education...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 76077Date: March 30, 2014Author:
Sattar, Sarosh ;
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Athanasouli, Daphne ;
Flanagan, Julianna ;
Nikoloski, Zlatko
Belarus demonstrated strong economic
growth 2000-2008 and this translated into fast poverty
reduction. Belarus invested a lot in the human capital of
its population...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 76325Date: March 3, 2014Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Sattar,Sarosh
Over the last three decades Jordan has
made substantial investments in its human resources,
spending more than 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) on health and...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: ACS5158Date: July 1, 2013
The aim of this report is to provide a
broad overview of the current state of gender equality in
Tajikistan. While the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region
traditionally...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 77920Date: June 13, 2013Author:
Barfieva,Sarvinoz ;
Bierbaum,Mira ;
Thurau,Julianna Flanagan ;
Lakhani,Sadaf Sayyeda ;
Sattar,Sarosh ;
Swinkels,Robertus A
In 2011, women and girls represented
50.6 percent of the total Montenegrin population (620,029
persons). Different aspects of gender inequality vary by
region and ethnicity....
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 78678Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Omar,Yumna ;
Vick,Brandon Corey
Since the introduction of economic
reforms in the mid-1980s, strong growth and development have
lifted thousands of poor women and men out of poverty,
changing traditional...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 74909Date: January 9, 2013Author:
Carlsson Rex,Helene Monika ;
Tanaka,Sonomi
Since the introduction of economic
reforms in the mid-1980s, strong growth and development have
lifted thousands of poor women and men out of poverty,
changing traditional...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 74909Date: January 9, 2013Author:
Carlsson Rex,Helene Monika ;
Tanaka,Sonomi
Groups gender action plan
(GAP) trust fund has financed a series of programs to
promote gender equality by empowering women to compete in
key markets: land, labor,...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 76117Date: January 1, 2013
Papua New Guinea (PNG) became
independent in 1976 as a constitutional parliamentary
democracy. The country has four regions (Highlands, Islands,
Momase and Southern)...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 75580Date: December 31, 2012
The paper aims to provide an overview of
the gender disparities in three major domains-human capital,
labor market and entrepreneurship. In doing so, it builds on
the...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 72291Date: June 26, 2012
Mobility is a major factor of access to
economic resources, education, health, and other key
elements influencing women's empowerment. In the Middle
East and North Africa's...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 54788Date: December 1, 2011
During the past two decades, Bangladesh
has made considerable progress in development, sustaining
high rates of economic growth and reducing poverty rates by
nine percent...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 68913Date: July 1, 2010
First tested in Mexico in 2003, and most
recently applied in 2009 in Argentina, the World Bank has
developed a model to incorporate gender equity into private
sector...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: AAA46Date: May 10, 2010
The objective of this policy note is to
examine the gender dimension of the Egyptian labor market,
with a focus on identifying the scope for policies to
improve female...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 54698Date: January 1, 2010
This report assesses the impact of the
movement and access regime in the period 2000-07 on the
economy and the working lives of Palestinians, exploring the
gender dimension...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 49699Date: January 1, 2010
Lebanon has faced a continuous series of
economic setbacks fueled by mounting political uncertainties
and war over the decades. The current global financial
crisis compounds...
Type: Country Gender Assessment (CGA)Report#: 50077Date: December 7, 2009
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